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The non-story about college social networking site Facebook's being on the block, which it has been for a while and everyone, including Viacom, has looked at it multiple times, parsed the valuation and options, and still could not think of a logical business reason for ponying up that kind of money.
What I do know, from my sources, is that Facebook closed on a "huge round" of funding last week. So I would say the acquisition part is off the table, for now. BW's $2 billion figure is at best, hearsay, and at worst, media manipulation.

BusinessWeek writer Steve Rosenbush is the latest sipper of the Facebook Kool-Aid, putting a positive spin on its "sell for $2 billion" plan in his latest article. (Tuesday morning drinking game: take a shot every time he follows a doubt with a "but" -- as in, "Facebook doesn't match the scale of MySpace, but...")

In India ‘missed calls’ were very popular, as a way to say, “I’m thinking about you” or “call me back.” I would often hear someone say, “I’ll send you a missed call when we get there - see you soon.”"

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Out for a simple pleasure cruise with two friends, Alex Zharov was planning to see Jamaica Bay in New York City. But this end-of-the-day excursion, which should have only lasted 40 minutes, turns into an out of control adventure that will leave him lost, stranded, and bleeding ... all within sight of the Empire State Building. Brett Martin reports. (22 minutes)

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Our Beach Pavilion, situated in a massive dome, will consist of a record breaking four acre indoor beach with a man-made realistic shoreline and boardwalk Our Water Kingdom Pavilion will consist of an assortment of rides designed to get patrons wet.Designed as an area to allow guests to warm up, dry off, and relax, Our Hospitality Pavilion is to include a public sun room with specially designed state of the art heating elements in its ceiling structure for warmth, comfort, and reduced dry-off time. Our Spa Pavilion is designed as an escape from the stimulation and adrenaline rush of the rest of the complex. Drawing on the five elements of Chinese philosophy, and other ancient Asian traditions that date back centuries, the Spa Pavilion aims for total body rejuvenation. Our Entertainment World Pavilion will encompass everything from a virtual reality theater and video arcade, to a musical comedy theater, rainforest jungle-gym, and underground caverns. Our food pavilion will consist of a variety of American and foreign fare. The pavilion will include both kosher and non-kosher cuisine, buffets, fine dining, fast food restaurants, Italian dessert cafes, "outdoor" seating, and dinner shows. Our aquarium will house many exotic fish, a touch and feed arena, a water ride that takes visitors into the "deep sea", and an aquatic museum. The Polynesian style hotel will house the resort portion of the complex. The Hotel itself will include a ballroom, eateries, wedding chapels, and its own water ride. Our parking garage will be a multi-level indoor parking facility to accommodate all guests from the aquarium, hotel, theatre, and water park complex. The garage will house three thousand vehicles at full capacity.

Our other services will include people mover walkways, computerized fingerprinting paperless admission, charter bus service directly from New York City and other points, local bus service to other area attractions/casinos, and private airplane shuttle service from local airports to New York City.

The new service, dubbed TiVo Mobile, will debut this summer and allow Get It Now customers to schedule recordings on their TiVo DVRs from their wireless phone.

Take a look at Zillow.com - they went out and got really hard to find data which they organized and made easily searchable with a great map interface. Cool. But then they forgot the second step it seems - MAKE MONEY from that value. Why in god’s name I don’t have to give them my credit card or something to see this data which can’t be found anywhere else, I have no idea.